Plenty of time for people to go through the alternative endings there are around, like Reticence, and Afterwards, and...

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pwhodges wrote:Plenty of time for people to go through the alternative endings there are around, like Reticence, and Afterwards, and...

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Both are great, but too normal as endings compared to the mental bombing Anno is going to give us.

The hype train has made a very long stop, but everyone that is a fan of the rebuilds will be there when we finally get set on our FINAL destination. (Haha see what I did there.... It's ok I'll just go hang now... Also not like those stupid movies that invent ways of people dying.)

"I'm not going there to die, I'm going to find out if I'm really alive." - Spike Spiegel

Gendo'sPapa wrote:Khara is hiring again. Clearly states the job includes the next Evangelion film. So they're near the point where they'll need bodies to get the work done. States applicants must be available at the end of June. Noice.

No. The last ones were always pretty vague with a "Next/Upcoming Project" announcement. People could - and we sure did - make assumptions they were hiring for Evangelion but Khara never confirmed that to be the case. To my knowledge this is the first time a recruitment ad explicitly states people will be working on the new Evangelion film.

Is it normal that an animator is paid 40.000 yen (370 dollars) while a 3D animator is paid 180.000 yen (1.650 dollars)? There's a huge disparity and a traditional 2D animator is paid well below the poverty line.

I would assume the disparity in pay is due to the hours of work needed out of the person. By the time 2D animation is being done it's pretty much settled what is happening in the frame. Meanwhile they iterate 3D fucking endlessly. Also consider that 3D animators will be doing all the pre-vis/animatics to plan out the movie and a portion of those shots will end up being 2D in the final product.

Given such a time gap between films, I hope the "Shin" part of Shin Eva or Shin Evangelion Gekijoban or Evangelion: 3.0+1.0, means we're getting both Tsurumaki's sincere vision of the Evangelion universe, one perhaps only seen in 1997's cinéma d'excès The End of Evangelion or 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 as it's known to cinephiles, and an upheavel of the traditional "Eva" iconography (pioneered by once-great anime-illustrator Hideaki Anno) on such a scale as to properly earn a descriptor as audaciously daring as "new." In western popcorn-flick parlance, I believe this phenomenon is termed "soft-reboot."